Pith Number

pith:S5OLYZAS

pith:2017:S5OLYZAS37QMVDC6W7R3BVQVGR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Playing Games with Bounded Entropy

Amin Gohari, Mehrdad Valizadeh

arxiv:1702.05719 v4 · 2017-02-19 · cs.IT · math.IT

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S5OLYZAS37QMVDC6W7R3BVQVGR}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:03:41.853852Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

975cbc6412dfe0ca8c5eb7e3b0d6153460f9cd3c3de5d3a5db471ee171d63522

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.05719 · arxiv_version: 1702.05719v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.05719 · pith_short_12: S5OLYZAS37QM · pith_short_16: S5OLYZAS37QMVDC6 · pith_short_8: S5OLYZAS

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/S5OLYZAS37QMVDC6W7R3BVQVGR \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 975cbc6412dfe0ca8c5eb7e3b0d6153460f9cd3c3de5d3a5db471ee171d63522

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cbacd79807780372765cd10653e61df04556d3aa2ae5565053390c32fd5997ad",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "math.IT"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IT",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-19T08:31:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6c58988034349c2b59f925e446f13df040b7f2dd804b0233d8ef5eba801ff3f6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.05719",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}